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Today's Topics:

1. CESA-2011:1240: Low CentOS 4 i386 and x86_64 EOL Notice (Tru Huynh)

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:56:00 +0200 From: Tru Huynh tru@centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1240: Low CentOS 4 i386 and x86_64 EOL Notice To: centos-announce@centos.org Message-ID: 20110905155600.GA19859@sillage.bis.pasteur.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1240:

This is the 6-month notification for the End of Life for the CentOS 4 distribution. The upstream provider will discontinue public updates of their EL4 product on February 29th, 2012. The CentOS Project will end support for CentOS 4 on the same date.

CentOS 4, as well as all previously released versions of CentOS, will continue to be available in the Centos Vault:

http://vault.centos.org/

This CESA includes a new centos-release file that reminds you of the February 29th, 2012 end of life date.

Users still running production workloads on CentOS 4 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to CentOS 5 or CentOS 6 before the EOL date.

For users who are unable to migrate off the EL 4 code base before its end-of-life date, the upstream provider intends to offer a limited, optional extension program. The CentOS Project recommends that you contact their sales team for a price quote for their extended service if you can not move to a newer code base before February 29th, 2012.